Lynn Powell

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Oberlin, OH

Ohio US

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Author's Bio

A native of East Tennessee, I have lived since 1990 in Oberlin, Ohio, where I teach in the Creative Writing Program of Oberlin College and am Director of Oberlin WITS (Writers-in-the-Schools).

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:

Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response (New Press, 2010)

Poetry

Anthologies:

Norton Introduction to Literature (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)

"Acceptance Speech" in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Random House, 2005)

Books:

Season of the Second Thought (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)

The Zones of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2003)

Old & New Testaments (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995)

Journals:

Field

Georgia Review

Paris Review

Poetry

Shenandoah

Southern Poetry Review

Southern Review

Prizes won:

NEA Fellowship in Poetry, Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Studs and Ida Terkel Author Award, Brittingham Prize in Poetry, 4 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Awards, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Chattanooga, TN

Tennessee

Raised in:

Chattanooga, TN

Tennessee

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Last update: Jun 07, 2017